That’s Nvidia’s whole game plan. Subscription to use their hardware. Limits on hours of gaming. Pay to play more hours.

Ask your vet about details and alternatives.

Extreme Dry eyes could cause blindness over time. So usually tear ducts are not removed.

Dude. It’s the rich billionaire paying off people controlling the world. You can’t honestly believe people near the bottom are fucking over the people slightly below them.

It’s the billionaires who literally control everything.

Next you are going to tell me it’s the refugees intentionally coming to the U.S and Europe to ruin the lives of the people already there and steal their money and benefits.

Or maybe how the Mexicans come to the U.S to be exploited intentionally, so that Americans get paid less for jobs.

You aren’t following the chain of cause and effect far enough.

Yes that’s what I was saying.

I’m honestly not sure why you keep arguing with me because I mentioned age when that was a factor.

Not in a direct way, but yes it is a factor in the way you say.

Age would imply a few things that would help qualify for the approval. But age on its own is not a criteria.

Middle class people haven’t fucked over the poor. The top 1% has.

And as someone who came from poverty, I’m aware that your mindset is shared by many.

They look at anyone doing a little better than they are and think “that seems unfair”.

Yeah. It is unfair.

But it’s not those middle people who are stealing and taking.

Higher educated people 💯 benefit you personally and directly.

Universities 💯 directly benefit you personally and directly.

Who designs infrastructure ?

Who researches materials and designs to make safer cars, machines, houses?

Who does research on crop yields?

Who finds more effective treatments for health problems or early detection?

Who finds better materials to make things from?

Who who who ?

I don’t deny that the rich get first dibs on many things like medicine.

But mostly, everyone benefits from investing in tech and research.

My grandfather never even went to high school. Though he was self educated.

He has his own home. Worked as a janitor for a hospital for a large chunk of his life that paid pretty decently.

But those years are gone.

If minimum wage matched what it did in the 70s with inflation, it would be $20 an hour. It’s half that.

Even when I was 20 (2005) working two minimum wage jobs, I was able to afford my own 1 bed apartment.

Wasn’t great. Was in a bad neighborhood. But I did live alone and was okay.

That’s not possible for people anymore.

And rent is insane. It’s probably went up nearly 30-40% in the last 10 years in a lot of places.

I’m from a very poor rural area where rent typically is $400 for a 1 bedroom.

My mom told me that rent now is like $800 for that area.

For a 1 bedroom.

That was the cost to rent a 2 bedroom house just a few years ago.

Corporations buying up everything. Even in small rural areas.

Trailer courts are also getting bought up and people are abandoning their trailer homes because the lot rental has doubled.

It’s very sad to see.

Both of the people were older.

My impression was that they couldn’t pay off that much debt at that age.

The people who are angry that you can’t read their mind, yet they can’t read yours.

I recall a long time ago that the period symbol used to imply sarcasm tone. But that was back when you had to always manually add it.

That was like… 2000 -2010 ish. I think.

Or was I just a sarcastic teen who assumed everyone I talked to was also being sarcastic. 🤔

I’m looking to teach and do research.

Tenure track positions are slim to none now days.

Most universities do something akin to gig work. (Isn’t that some shit? I go to school for 14 years to do gig work!!)

They hire you to teach a class at a semester-to-semester situation.

Those positions suck as there are no full time employee benefits nor security. But they are easier to find and get.

Since I’m a fresh graduate I’m looking at community colleges to start with. Then in 2 years I am hopeful I can find a university position and start research again. But you are right about competition. And at present I have nothing published. I’m hoping to get a published paper from my dissertation work but I feel like that’s 50/50.

Also I feel like I need a break from research and need to build up my syllabus courses and that takes an enormous amount of time. So I’m okay with doing teaching only for 2 years.

My first solo teaching class easily took 30+ hours a week to prepare for. Not counting the 3 hr lecture. And it was my specialty area.

I talked to a few other professors and they said that’s what they remember it being for the first time they taught each of their classes. I wasn’t expecting that.

At present I only have 1 fully prepared course. However I’m qualified to teach probably 6 courses.

So depending on what the college needs, I will almost certainly need to create new courses.

Research methods class is a favorite of mine and it just so happens most professors hate teaching it. So I think I might have a good “in” by emphasizing I’m open to teaching it.

It’s always good to know what you can do that others can’t or don’t want to do.

A cylindrical human centipede is a really good analogy to how LLMs work.

I didn’t summarize the whole article because that wasn’t relevant to my points.

My points were.

Fasfa contract says it can’t be reduced with bankruptcy but article gave two examples of when it has been.

One due to the institution being shut down. The other from owing a high amount and being older.

Everyone involved was not wealthy. Otherwise they wouldn’t have the debt in the first place. So I didn’t think that was relevant to mention.

I’m not sure that two examples is enough to convince me that this is possible for more people to get this exception made for their student loan debt.

But maybe with the loss of the loan forgiveness program, people can make a stronger case for it.

Already did.

There is a lot of spacing but I didn’t write much.

But society personally and directly benefits from people who are scholars and scientists.

If it wasn’t for people like me, willing to do the work and take on the debt, many of the best qualities of our lives would cease to exist.

Do people like me , deserve to be burdened by insane debt the rest of our lives for trying to improve our country.

Many other thriving nations realize that investing in their own citizens pays dividends.

Higher education is free or heavily subsidized by their governments.

But Americans would rather punish anyone trying to rise out of poverty by educating themselves.

The American individuality mindset is , : “I shouldn’t have to pay any of my taxes to help others , even though helping them also helps me”.

• Also you sure don’t sound socialist.

Socialist would be in support of free education.

Ah thanks for clarifying

PhD in cognitive neuroscience.

It’s a stem degree.

Husband?

So a two income household.

Banking ?

Yeah that’s a corp job.

“Worked construction and did house cleaning and bought a big house”.

That’s not something most people with those two jobs could do. Even in a dual income household.

Unless perhaps you failed to mention he owned a construction business.?

Maybe 30 years ago. Sure. Not now.

I think you are unaware of a few things that have changed.

The cost of education has went up so much in 30 years.

Even my associates degree I paid $13000 for in 2008-2012 is easily now a $25,000 degree. At a community college.

As I said. Going to the next level , a state college, will be at minimum, $30k a year. (60k for associates, $120k for bachelor’s).

Also , if you have kids or disabled, you are eligible for “free” money for college.

I did not qualify for any free money.

30 years ago , heck even 20 years ago, you could buy a house with only 8 or 9k down. And the house payments would be ~700 a month.

That’s not how it is anymore.

Those same Homes are half a million now.

And the down payments needed are 30-50k.

This is why boomers are very much out of touch with the reality of American life now.

It’s not how it was in the 80s, or 90s.

College is so expensive that when you graduate you owe so much, that the interest will rise faster than you can pay it off. Meaning you will just keep owing more money.

Also as far as credentials. Every place that isn’t base like minimum wage jobs , requires a degree of some kind. With the exception of hard manual labor jobs. Like working in factories and warehouses. Hard labor. Hard on your body. And usually men work those jobs because of the physical demands being high. Destroying their bodies by 40.

And also. I never could afford health insurance at any job I ever had until I got a job working for the health insurance company.

There is no way anyone on minimum wage could possibly afford health insurance premiums.

I recall working at Pizza Hut 2006 before I got my corp job. $6 an hour.

After taxes I made about 700 a month.

Insurance premium was $250. For a young healthy 20 year old.

It’s way more than that now. ~$500-700 per month.

And anyway. Doesn’t matter. Couldn’t afford deductable or copays. So pointless to have.

I literally don’t know a single person from real life that uses it.

1st degree means pre meditated.

Should be negligent homicide.

We need like a symbol or emoji or something for satire cause it’s honestly getting too hard to tell. I have to ask people all the time to clarify.

I personally like the upside down smiling face. Melting face. Just something we can agree on and that won’t come up in other conversations too much. And that’s also on most people’s phones.

Idk. Just brainstorming

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